Monday - January 6

Holy crap it's cold here. I did make it to work today. Steve and I shoveled the driveway which, thankfully, did not have much snow accumulated due to the driving wind. It faces east, so the house blocked the worst of it. However, our front porch faces north and we shoveled the walk for the newspaper lady and the area around the mailbox.

We were both bundled up pretty good, and I even put BodyGlide on my face (try this, it works), but with a wind chill of -32, it was just a matter of time before it was too miserable to be outside. Took a couple of breaks to let the fingers thaw out.

Made it in to work today. Besides my boss, I was the only one in our department who was able to come to work. And jeez, all the schools, many businesses, even the state of Illinois offices were closed today and yet our company was open. We had the choice of staying home if it was too dangerous, but had to use PTO time.

Sunday - January 5

Bike

30m

10.00 miles

20.00 Mi/hr

Trainer workout -- did part of SufferFest Local Hero

Batten down the hatches, the winter storm is rolling in. Looks like an indoor kind of day.

7 PM updateSteve and I stayed in all day. This has to be some kind of first for us. Our area got around 10 inches of snow and high winds with whiteout conditions today. Looks like pretty much everything is already shut down for tomorrow in anticipation of record low temperatures.

Saturday - January 4

Bike

30m

7.00 miles

14.00 Mi/hr

Rode the spin bike at the Y, it's closer to mtb than my tri bike on the trainer. Put it on Hill workout and stood up to pedal for 10-20 sec on each hill. The gym was ridiculously busy with the resolutionaries and at the 30 minute point, had to stop and let someone else have the bike.

Run

15m

1.30 miles

11m 32s /Mi

Short dreadmill run after the bike. gym still too hot for any kind of decent workout.

-4 here today. I was grateful that my car started. Even sitting in the garage it's ass cold. Our street was pretty slick after yesterday morning's snow storm, and our house sits on the outside of a slight curve in the road. It surprises people who aren't familiar with the subdivision layout. Looks like someone missed the curve and drove up through our yard, narrowly missing the mailbox, a very large tree, and the corner of the house, before exiting onto the road again.